Ukrainian air defenses shot down a Russian Su-24M bomber over the Black Sea near Zmiinyi Island using what some sources described as US-made Patriot missiles.
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Ukrainian air defenses scored a rare shootdown of a Russian Su-24M strike jet operating over international waters of the Black Sea, Wednesday news reports said. Russian and Ukrainian sources said the intercept occurred near Zmiinyi Island.
According to the Russian Voenniy Osvedomitel military information platform, a US-made Patriot missile system scored the kill from a launch site near the Black Sea shore in Ukraine's western Odesa region.
A Ukrainian air defence missile caught a Russian Su-24M bomber on 5 December near Zmiinyi (Snake) Island
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